Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Look around you… There! Yes, there!! There's what you need to succeed.

Like a feather in the air, like a leaf in the sea, I surrender to Thee, I surrender to Thee.

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

...if I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.